Steve B, Brian P, Thom K and Sue J paddled to Islet View in Howe Sound this past Monday. The group marked a site for the next tent platform (see template wood on Steve’s boat as he launches) and did some path clearing. Read more about SKABC's stewardship projects in Howe Sound here. Here are some photos from Monday:
Twenty plus club members gathered at Locarno Beach for a summer picnic. As the evening progressed we had visits at our tent from potential members, games of Cornhole, and a demo of how to paddleboard with a dog. Thanks to everyone who helped make our first in-person social event of 2021 a success! Credit to Sue Johnson and Quirine Schuyff for the photos.
It was a fun and successful day for the group who came to White Rock on June 12 to learn how to catch crab from their kayaks!
For Saturday's event at 7:30 pm, SKABC members will be celebrating BC Trails Day with great films, good company and PRIZES thanks to the Outdoor Recreation Council! The films are:
Vitamin Sea:
Cal Major, whose journey the film covers, describes it as follows:
Vitamin Sea follows my 2 month journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats, the length of mainland UK, by Stand Up Paddleboard. The film focusses on the positive solutions to plastic pollution, including the importance of community and connection to nature. The film also delves into the importance of time in nature for our mental health, and follows a journey full of raw emotion, as changeable as the surface of the ocean.
Expect an epic adventure (but without the messy bits cut out), to see the UK coastline in all her stunning, dramatic glory, and to question your own connection to the ocean and how that is driving you.
TRAILER - VITAMIN SEA - YouTube
Family Routes:
Leanne Robinson and Dwayne Wohlgemuth embarked on a summer-long canoe trip across the Northwest Territories with their two sons: four-year-old Emile, and one-year-old Aleksi. Together they face the challenges of living off the land and criticism back home.
Many thanks to guest speakers Norm Hann and John Kimantas who spoke at our virtual club meeting on June 7.
John gave information on BC Marine Trails' Site Assessment Program.
Norm's excellent film Howe Sound can be found here: https://normhann.com/2019/10/howe-sound-short-film/
Here's a link to the VSSL “vessel” first-aid kit Norm showed: https://vsslgear.ca/products/vssl-first-aid
Subscribe to Norm’s newsletter on his website and he’ll send you his Nifty Nine must-pack items for mult-day paddling trips.
Norm also spoke of weather forecasts from Environment Canada. He also uses the hourly reports* from the Pam Rocks weather station.
*Our director Nick Heath explains "These are not forecasts but are real time reports, updated hourly. On the day one is paddling, they can be useful to tell you what is happening a few miles away, which can be quite different from at one's start point and these are also good if one is heading in that direction. They can also give you a pattern to check if today's weather is more or less similar to yesterday's and if the wind shifted yesterday from outflow to inflow at 11 am then it probably will be similar today etc - but they are not hourly forecasts. The data are available for 24 hrs then are archived for ever, but can still be easily retrieved, as for all other BC coast weather stations (when they are working properly)".
